Samsung working on touch-based fingerprint scanner: Report

Samsung introduced the Galaxy S5 with a fingerprint scanner and ever since many of its devices have been equipped with this security feature. Now, an unnamed source has told  Sammobile that the phone maker is all to set to ditch the swipe-based fingerprint sensor for a touch-based sensor. This means, it will now function similar to the Touch ID on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus that allows the entire fingerprint to be registered instead of just a partial one. You don’t need to swipe your finger on the sensor anymore. The touch-based sensor will be built into the home button. However, the report adds that the home button will be slightly bigger compared to the one seen in the Galaxy S5 and Note 4. “With the new touch-based sensor, you wouldn’t have to swipe your finger on the sensor anymore; instead, you would just place your fingertip on the home key – at any angle – then lift it off, and that’s it,” adds the report. However, it should be noted that the fingerprint scanner currently employed in Samsung devices already allows fingerprints to be registered at multiple angles. The report also adds the Samsung won’t be adding any new software for the fingerprint scanner. It will include the legacy features like fingerprint unlock, verifying Samsung account, web sign-in, Pay with PayPal and more. Samsung Galaxy S6, code-named ‘Project Zero’, will most likely be announced at the Mobile World Congress 2015, which takes place in March this year. As we had **noted** earlier, the model will have an aluminium unibody frame. It is believed that the handset has also reached India for testing purposes, as an import data website Zauba, showed that Samsung had flown in a smartphone with the model number SM-G925F.